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Congress for Cultural Freedom organization

also: ACCF, American Committee for Cultural Freedom, CCF, Congress for Cultural Freedoms, Congress of Cultural Freedom, Cultural Cold War

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CIA funded Congress for Cultural Freedom documented
“obliged Gene Groves to make declarations he would have preferred to avoid while others positioned themselves around the debate. As soon as reporters began to delve into the relationship between the CIA and the National Student Association, …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34) @ 1:06
Congress for Cultural Freedom front_for CIA host_asserted
“cooperating this entire time. Psychological warfare particularly was pursued covertly by the State Department through U.S. Information Agency and Voice of America Radio. They were working in tandem with the CIA. The U.S. Information Agency …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14) @ 39:15
Suzanne Laben member_of Congress for Cultural Freedom book_quoted
“but she never left the network of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. She did remain a visible part of this organization, as well as several other prominent organizations in France that bridged the gap for coordination with the right-wing an…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12 @ 20:09
Richard Wright member_of Congress for Cultural Freedom book_quoted
“he was going to be used. Let's see. There was another classic that was printed called The God That Failed. He had also received money from the Congress of Cultural Freedom, which is CIA. And part of the reason why he was receiving that mone…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism&Cold War #1 @ 50:21
Julian Amery co-founded Congress for Cultural Freedom host_asserted
“Also, MI6. Again, you guys have to be able to see that this is Operation Gladio. Amari also acted as a co-founder of the CIA-ran Congress for Cultural Freedom, which we've talked about at nauseam, not exclusively. Attending the founding CCF…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 13:19
Congress for Cultural Freedom operated_with National Student Association host_asserted
“asset team to go on that tour of Africa that we talked about. They are also the ones that operated inside the United States with the National Student Association, the Women's Lib through Gloria Steinem. They have been intimately involved in…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 14:17
Congress for Cultural Freedom operated_with Gloria Steinem host_asserted
“asset team to go on that tour of Africa that we talked about. They are also the ones that operated inside the United States with the National Student Association, the Women's Lib through Gloria Steinem. They have been intimately involved in…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10 @ 14:17
Frank Wisner funded Congress for Cultural Freedom host_asserted
“And since everything about the West is said to be free, free, free, then it went without saying that everything about the Soviet Union wasn't. Organized by Burnham and Hooke, the American delegation represented a who's who of America's post…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 1:16:07
Congress for Cultural Freedom front_for CIA host_asserted
“repression. You gotta love this. Western freedom. The freedom they're trying to destroy. So the Congress for Cultural Freedom is basically a CIA front. And he, Burnham joined in preparation for the conference as an agent of the OPC, which n…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 1:15:08
Marvin Warner exposed Congress for Cultural Freedom book_quoted
“which helped arrange travel expenses and publicity. According to a CIA historian, Mark Warner, the conference sponsors considered it money well spent, with one Defense Department representative calling it unconventional warfare at its best.…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 1:16:35
James Burnham worked_for Congress for Cultural Freedom book_quoted
“an entity called Congress for Cultural Freedom, CCF. And that was a CIA front initiative to basically do propaganda. So his ideology and career are important, the author says, so that you can see that you can go from the corridors of Britis…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 5:06
Franklin D. Burnham founded Congress for Cultural Freedom host_asserted
“And he's gleaning intel for the use of the CIA because these neo-Nazis are staying behind Gladio units. Full circle. Burnham's single most important office of policy coordination effort was to create the Congress for Cultural Freedom, CCF, …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 1:14:35
CIA funded Congress for Cultural Freedom host_asserted
“They don't even hide it anymore. It's so amazing. Yeah. So we've talked about that. They had an actual CIA front called the Congress of Cultural Freedom that they set up.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 1:18:07
Congress for Cultural Freedom front_for CIA host_asserted
“They don't even hide it anymore. It's so amazing. Yeah. So we've talked about that. They had an actual CIA front called the Congress of Cultural Freedom that they set up.…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 1:18:07
Congress for Cultural Freedom funded Encounter documented
“The Congress for Cultural Freedom grew to become one of the biggest art patrons in world history, sponsoring an impressive array of books, publishing, startups, and literary magazines, including The Encounter and Paris Review. They also had…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 40:15
Congress for Cultural Freedom funded Paris Review documented
“The Congress for Cultural Freedom grew to become one of the biggest art patrons in world history, sponsoring an impressive array of books, publishing, startups, and literary magazines, including The Encounter and Paris Review. They also had…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 40:15
CIA front_for Congress for Cultural Freedom host_asserted
“The overwhelming majority of the intellectuals is anti-communist labor socialists. They are willing to assist the emperor in the modernization of the nations, but they want to be handled as adults. Tosset advised his audience to establish a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4 @ 41:36
Congress for Cultural Freedom front_for CIA host_asserted
“It left the CIA and went to Geneva. The sum of money was unknown. Moreover, on many occasions, Brown personally played a part on courses in the role of conference speaker and made available his entire network and often used the venue of the…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti-Communism #3 @ 27:33
CIA funded Congress for Cultural Freedom documented
“on the war of ideas, subsidizing the intellectual and creative labors of those who were deemed politically correct and seeking to marginalize anyone that wasn't. The main front organization used for this was the Congress for Cultural Freedo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15 @ 39:45
Congress for Cultural Freedom front_for CIA book_quoted
“an entity called Congress for Cultural Freedom, CCF. And that was a CIA front initiative to basically do propaganda. So his ideology and career are important, the author says, so that you can see that you can go from the corridors of Britis…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in The Empire on Which the Black Sun Never Set, Chapter 13 @ 5:06
Rockefeller Foundation funded Congress for Cultural Freedom host_asserted
“co-opting. And a lot of this is funded in addition to CIA covert funding, but a lot of it is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and many of the other Ford Foundation. And this was all exposed back in the 1950s of how they were using the m…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 1:19:18
Ford Foundation funded Congress for Cultural Freedom host_asserted
“co-opting. And a lot of this is funded in addition to CIA covert funding, but a lot of it is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and many of the other Ford Foundation. And this was all exposed back in the 1950s of how they were using the m…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1 @ 1:19:18
Peter Jank founded Congress for Cultural Freedom host_asserted
“It was later reported in Searchlight magazine that Column 88 was in fact part of Gladio. Peter Jay, son-in-law of the future Labour Premier, James Callaghan, created the Congress of Cultural Freedom, a CIA front organization inside Britain.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - UK and Harold Wilson @ 33:26
CIA funded Congress for Cultural Freedom host_asserted
“The fact that they said it was a transnational organization so that it is in, yeah, and like we've said, whether it was the Congress for Cultural Freedom or any of the, all of the nefarious African-American ones, remember the whole thing ab…”
▶ Who was Michael Alexander Gloss_ Was he intelligence_ @ 1:10:56

Mentions (27)

Operation Gladio - UK and Harold Wilson
▶ 33:26 It was later reported in Searchlight magazine that Column 88 was in fact part of Gladio. Peter Jay, son-in-law of the future Labour Premier, James Callaghan, created the Congress of Cultural Freedom, a CIA front organization inside Britain.…
The Colonel’s Corner Safe for Democracy Part 13 (14)
▶ 39:15 cooperating this entire time. Psychological warfare particularly was pursued covertly by the State Department through U.S. Information Agency and Voice of America Radio. They were working in tandem with the CIA. The U.S. Information Agency …
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 29 (30)
▶ 1:23:52 This is the business they're in. And they've been doing it this entire time. So there's literally nothing off limits. The Congress for Cultural Freedom was 100% a CIA operation. And it basically co-opted artists and like the...…
The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 32 (34)
▶ 1:06 obliged Gene Groves to make declarations he would have preferred to avoid while others positioned themselves around the debate. As soon as reporters began to delve into the relationship between the CIA and the National Student Association, …
The Colonel's Corner Spooks Part 3
▶ 1:00:16 Cuba was a node and like Iran and Ukraine and whatever. And especially they bring up, you know, like the Black Panthers and SDS and these organizations that were probably co-opted by the Congress of Cultural Freedom. And so that is brought …
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15
▶ 39:45 on the war of ideas, subsidizing the intellectual and creative labors of those who were deemed politically correct and seeking to marginalize anyone that wasn't. The main front organization used for this was the Congress for Cultural Freedo…
The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 15
▶ 40:15 The Congress for Cultural Freedom grew to become one of the biggest art patrons in world history, sponsoring an impressive array of books, publishing, startups, and literary magazines, including The Encounter and Paris Review. They also had…
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 1:18:07 They don't even hide it anymore. It's so amazing. Yeah. So we've talked about that. They had an actual CIA front called the Congress of Cultural Freedom that they set up.…
The Colonel’s Corner The Great Pretense Part 1
▶ 1:18:19 They operated primarily in Europe, but they also operated in the United States. And they understand that politics is downstream of culture. And their entire operation with creating the Congress of Cultural Freedom, which again is the exact …
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti-Communism #3
▶ 27:33 It left the CIA and went to Geneva. The sum of money was unknown. Moreover, on many occasions, Brown personally played a part on courses in the role of conference speaker and made available his entire network and often used the venue of the…
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism&Cold War #1
▶ 35:02 of a thing called the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Now, the Congress for Cultural Freedom is a CIA front, by the way, and we've come across that repeatedly. It's almost as common as the Institute of Peace when it comes to Operation Gladio…
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism&Cold War #1
▶ 40:13 These are the same U.S. National Student Associations that were tethered to the National Weather Underground and some of the other terrorist acts that were going on at the time, which ties all of that domestic terrorism to Operation Gladio …
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism&Cold War #1
▶ 50:21 he was going to be used. Let's see. There was another classic that was printed called The God That Failed. He had also received money from the Congress of Cultural Freedom, which is CIA. And part of the reason why he was receiving that mone…
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism&Cold War #1
▶ 54:08 So he basically outed the entire contingent, saying that if they got a passport or a visa to travel, that they were on the payroll of the CIA. According to African-American novelist James Baldwin, in Paris covering the conference for the Co…
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism&Cold War #1
▶ 58:01 And Davis responded by proposing an appointment of an American to the board if they were going to receive U.S. funding. This time it was DIOP who protested and Davis basically withdrew that stipulation. So basically the CIA is funding this …
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anti Communism&Cold War #1
▶ 1:11:20 organizations like the Congress for Cultural Freedom was also engulfed in its own exposure of having been outed as a CIA front as well. So it ends up, it says, however, John Davis was unable to find other funding. And so basically the entir…
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10
▶ 13:19 Also, MI6. Again, you guys have to be able to see that this is Operation Gladio. Amari also acted as a co-founder of the CIA-ran Congress for Cultural Freedom, which we've talked about at nauseam, not exclusively. Attending the founding CCF…
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War Part 10
▶ 13:49 Congress for Cultural Freedom, conference in June 1950 in Berlin and serving on its International Steering Committee. Now, keep in mind, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, we went over them in the last book and in several other areas. They …
The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4
▶ 41:36 The overwhelming majority of the intellectuals is anti-communist labor socialists. They are willing to assist the emperor in the modernization of the nations, but they want to be handled as adults. Tosset advised his audience to establish a…
The Colonel's Corner - Transnational Anti Communism & Cold War Part 4
▶ 42:05 of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, which is the CIA. Quote, the emperor would think twice before attacking a group that has sympathy, respect, and organizational support of the democratic labor world, which eventually can mobilize world …
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism& Cold War part 8
▶ 7:36 These were often supported by covert means to perpetuate their image as private spontaneous initiatives driven purely by concerns of active and concerned citizens. They ranged from the initially MI6 supported World Assembly of Youth in 1946…
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12
▶ 19:10 an anti-Stalinist cultural review whose committee of patronage would have comprised, and they go on to talk about several prominent Frenchmen, but that didn't work out too well. It is understandable, therefore, that Le Pen took an interest …
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12
▶ 19:41 having played an important role in the French delegation to the inaugural conference of the Congress for Cultural Freedom that was held in West Berlin in 1950. She also had ambitions to take over the editorship for the Congress of Cultural …
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 12
▶ 20:09 but she never left the network of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. She did remain a visible part of this organization, as well as several other prominent organizations in France that bridged the gap for coordination with the right-wing an…
The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Communism&Cold War Part 14
▶ 34:13 although the CIDCC could certainly be described as one of the most significant reactions to the communist anti-religion offensive on public opinion in Europe. Unlike other international active anti-communist organizations like Peace and Lib…
The Shadow State 34 Secret Societies 18; Horace Mann School
▶ 25:48 we try to indoctrinate them as well we try to get them to spy on the foreign countries that's the entire purpose of the peace corps and every other humanitarian thing that we do we don't do a damn thing that's humanitarian we do a bunch of …
Who was Michael Alexander Gloss_ Was he intelligence_
▶ 1:10:56 The fact that they said it was a transnational organization so that it is in, yeah, and like we've said, whether it was the Congress for Cultural Freedom or any of the, all of the nefarious African-American ones, remember the whole thing ab…
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